Rep. Bob Turner, the Republican rookie politician last seen defeating Democrat David Weprin for Anthony Weiner’s old congressional seat in Queens and Brooklyn, announced yesterday that he will contest the GOP primary to try to face Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, this November.

The special election last September was widely perceived in part as a referendum on how President Obama’s Mideast policies were playing with Jewish voters (never mind that the district’s Jewish voters are disproportionately Orthodox and Russian immigrants). The seat’s previous holder, Weiner, is Jewish; Weprin is Jewish; and Turner’s prospective opponent for the seat, Rory Lancman, is Jewish (more on that seat, which may soon not exist, in a little).

Rep. Bob Turner, the Republican rookie politician last seen defeating Democrat David Weprin for Anthony Weiner’s old congressional seat in Queens and Brooklyn, announced yesterday that he will contest the GOP primary to try to face Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Democrat of New York, this November.

The special election last September was widely perceived in part as a referendum on how President Obama’s Mideast policies were playing with Jewish voters (never mind that the district’s Jewish voters are disproportionately Orthodox and Russian immigrants). The seat’s previous holder, Weiner, is Jewish; Weprin is Jewish; and Turner’s prospective opponent for the seat, Rory Lancman, is Jewish (more on that seat, which may soon not exist, in a little).